“Ask yourself on a daily basis, “Am I doing this to please someone else, or because I really want to do this?”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Children of narcissistic parents tend to become fluent in saying “sorry” – even for just their very existence. It’s because they’ve been taught by their parents that they are a burden.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“A final scenario describes the incipient codependent toddler who largely bypasses the fight, flight and freeze responses and instead learns to fawn her way into the relative safety of becoming helpful. She may be one of the gifted children of Alice Miller’s Drama Of The Gifted Child, who discovers t…”— Pete Walker, pete-walker.com
“You may have internalized early in your life that your needs were not as important as others’ needs were. Lack of empathy from a parent or caretaker, neglect, blame, criticism, failure to accept you as you are and appreciate your qualities and other such experiences have shaped your belief that othe…”— Nina W. Brown, amazon.com
“When we are the children of narcissistic parents, emotionally abusive people fit the profile of what our subconscious has been primed to seek. Yet they often come disguised as our saviors.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com